Effective yard management is a complex topic in today’s ever-evolving supply chain. Poor planning can lead to extensive fees or charges. Warehouse managers struggle with maintaining visibility and control over trucks, personnel, and assets in their yards. ASI Logistics can help warehouse managers overcome these challenges with comprehensive automation.
The first step to overcoming yard management challenges lies in gaining visibility into shipments and trailers. This includes getting visibility into empty trailers, freight waiting to be loaded, and delays during exiting. Yard managers should use tracking technologies such as radio frequency identification, GPS, and Bluetooth-enabled technologies to monitor shipment location and trailer status.
Fewer personnel on the ground between trailers and trucks and docks means fewer chances for unsafe situations to arise. Automation and teleoperation keep people out of harm’s way.
The use of automated tracking technology helps to automate notifications for truck arrival and exiting. This can streamline check-in processes, letting dock supervisors know when a truck arrives or leaves. Paired with shipment tracking, this helps reduce deadhead as well.
Depending on the size of your company, you may work with many drivers who have not previously been to your yard. As a result, investing in training is necessary to run a safe operation. ASI Logistics provides autonomous identification and definition of your yard, such as Arrival Zone, Pick-Up Zone, Empties, Repairs, Priority Loads, and more. Mobius® helps you capture important information, such as arrival time, trailer number, driver, contents, seal number, and release date. Mobius helps to make all players accountable on how and where they move trailers.
Steadfast automation, where and when you need it, is the cornerstone of what ASI provides. From law enforcement to industrial solutions, robotics cannot be a force multiplier without this level of command and control.
Brian Higgins
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